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  1. Re: WOW! on Sony To Source All Its Energy From Renewables By 2040 (nikkei.com) · · Score: 2

    1983 Sony Walkman?

  2. Can someone wipe my phone? on Apple Refutes Hacker's Claim He Could Break iPhone Passcode Limit (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that some jackass can wipe my phone by grabbing it and entering the wrong password 10 times? That would be a nasty prank.

  3. Why am I seeing this add? on Facebook Ends 'Dark Posts' -- All Ads Will Be Visible To The Public (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    An awesome transparency feature would be a button explaining why you were targeted for this ad.

  4. Take back our words! on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Of all the times I have used the word 'gay', almost always I meant 'some degree of bad', I rarely meant 'homosexual' and almost never meant 'happy'. When did the sexual connotation of the word begin and why is that the overriding meaning now. Many words have multiple meanings, the context is key.

  5. Losing money? Prove it. on Music Streaming Hailed as Industry's Saviour as Labels Enjoy Profit Surge (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    "Not long ago, the music industry was losing money left and right."

    Are we all supposed to accecpt that as fact? The kind of accounting they do will prove that they never make money and rarely owe artists any royalties.

  6. Re:Paid placement on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 2, Informative

    For a while AltaVista was for sure the most relevant search engine. Like all the others, they evolved by chasing the easiest dollar. Front page ads, paid for results, etc. Small minded stuff.

    Google on the other hand took the long view, they kept the front page clean, kept the search results pure, and kept the advertising in check.

  7. Re:They're called trees. on Breakthrough In Artificial Photosynthesis Captures CO2 In Acetate · · Score: 1

    Chop down two trees, burn one to heat the other in low oxigen, this is a carbon neutral activity. Now take that biochar and bury it deep in the earth, or use it to condition the soil.

    Plant two trees and let them soak up carbon.

    I don't see any thermodynamic paradox there.

    You could just bury trees, but I think the idea is the charcoal doesn't degrade back to carbon dioxide as quickly.

  8. Re:They're called trees. on Breakthrough In Artificial Photosynthesis Captures CO2 In Acetate · · Score: 1

    I think you would fire the furnace with a carbon neutral source, like wood. I think you would fire it with the very vegetation that you are carbonizing. I think they just restrict the amount of air they let in to the chamber.

    Also I believe the proposed solution is to apply the char to soil to condition it.

    I did a quick google of "pyrolysis carbon sequestration" and then "biochar"

    I would say that most of the carbon sequestration ideas I have heard of sound much more crazy than pyrolysis of vegetation.

    Personally, I would never support carbon sequestration anyway. I would say I am against purposeful human intervention of climate. If we have messed things up so far by accident or out of ignorance, imagine how bad things will be when we mess with climate for politics.

  9. Cheap Sniping at GNU, nice on Microsoft Open Technologies Is Closing: Good Or Bad News For Open Source? · · Score: 0

    You sound like a dick taking cheap shots at GNU.

  10. Re:They're called trees. on Breakthrough In Artificial Photosynthesis Captures CO2 In Acetate · · Score: 1

    I heard an idea that seems too simple and cheap to actually ever try but, if we do ever need to sequester carbon from the atmosphere, the proposed solution is to cut the trees and convert them to charcoal by pyrolysis, then bury the charcoal, of course plant new trees and repeat.

  11. Re:Bail terms - no more money making on Kim Dotcom Faces Jail At Bail Hearing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have almost certainly broken sharia law of many nations, how would you feel about defending your self there. Should you be extradited? Should your assets be frozen so that you have no chance of financing a reasonable defence?

  12. Re:wow on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 2

    This doesn't make sense, mass equates to energy, not the rate of energy.
    I understand watts to be power, or the rate of energy usage.

  13. Re:Thoughts about groklaw.net? on Interviews: Ask Florian Mueller About Software Patents and Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Earlier this year I met a highly trustworthy source (a corporate executive) who confirmed PJ's participation in a certain (patent-related) meeting years ago.

    And just the other day a friend who I made up (a very trustworthy fellow), happened to metion that you sleep with silver slippers on your feet.

  14. New low on Interviews: Ask Florian Mueller About Software Patents and Copyrights · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Holy crap, I can hardly believe this topic. Who in their right mind would want FM opinion on anything? This is really puzzling to me.

  15. Re:Dear Apple, on Apple Refutes Report On iPhone Threat To China's National Security · · Score: 1

    Also, I would bet they are 'legally' required to deny these things.

  16. Paranoid? on Russian Officials Dump iPads For Samsung Tablets Over Spy Fears · · Score: 2

    How in the world is this paranoid?

  17. Re:There's one born every minute. on How To Create Your Own Cryptocurrency · · Score: 1

    This seems weird to me, why would you bother to do that?

  18. The Truck Got Stuck on US Coast Guard Ship To Attempt Rescue of 2 Icebreakers In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    Any one else reminded of this "The Truck Got Stuck" Corb Lund video?

  19. Re:Time to sell List of CEOs home addresses on Data Broker Medbase200 Sold Lists of Rape & Domestic Violence Victims · · Score: 1

    BTW, ball park numbers from the top of my head:

    EU 500,000,000
    US 330,000,000
    CAN 35,000,000

    Total ~865,000,000

  20. Re:"Celebrity?" on LeVar Burton On Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Actually, best known for his role in the mini series Roots.

  21. Hope the editors like Ecuador on The New Yorker Launches 'Strongbox' For Secure Anonymous Leaks · · Score: 2

    Wasn't there a guy who tried this once before?

  22. Re:For domestic consumption on New Bird Shaped Drone Shown at Security and Defense Trade Show · · Score: 1

    Also, I fear for the real birds, it's very easy for someone with a rifle to shoot down a soaring rappter. If someone were growing weed in the woods real birds will be killed, many are endangered or recovering.

  23. Re:Nuh uh (Why not?) on Sony Reveals More PS4 and Dual Shock 4 Details · · Score: 2

    Why not? Because I don't have to, because a new ps4 is not a necessity. Since there is no backwards compatibility I have no compelling reason to choose this Sony product over any other game console. It will be easy for me to follow my conscience and choose to purchase from a company with higher standards of conduct. I don't trust Sony, trust is earned, they have proved themselves untrustworthy. Sometimes it's hard to make a consumer decision but this couldn't be simpler.

  24. Q:Water / Oil seperation A:Distilation on HydroICE Project Developing a Solar-Powered Combustion Engine · · Score: 1

    I should think the water won't last long in the oil as its being heated to 700 degrees, the watter should boill off and be recoverable with a condensor. This is assuming that you would want a closed circuit for the water.

    If the plant isn't efficient as per "energy out" / "energy in" it could still be efficient as per "total energy out lifetime" / "total cost in dollars lifetime".

  25. Article linked to D.N.S. on Facebook IPO Stumbles Out of the Gate · · Score: 1

    The article linked to does not support your assertion, says nothing about underwriters stepping in, nothing about freefall, nothing about decline, nothing about manipulation.

    Why is that?